DIY Trade News November 2013
RETAIL RECAP
RETAIL RECAP
Build it
Number of stores
290
Area of expertise
Building and hardware supplier
Managing director
Ray Whitmore
Regional manager
James Crawford (East), Sean Bradshaw (Inland), Simon Bisset (North
Rand), Johann Klopper (Eastern Cape), Leigh de Beer (Western
Cape), Anton Wassenaar (Lowveld), Steven Schaefer (West)
Contact details
KZN: 031-508-5129
South Rand: 011-821-4264
North Rand: 011-203-5324
Lowveld: 013-753-6826
Eastern Cape: 041-404-5005 Western Cape: 021-690-0050
Website
Build it is a voluntary group of independent retailers specializing
in building materials and related hardware. Build it is a dynamic
organisation boasting a market leading growth in the hardware
and building materials industry. The organisation currently has a
membership of in excess of 285 stores in Southern Africa, and employs
approximately 8 250 people. Build it is a division of the Spar Group
Limited (www.spar.co.za) and the stores are serviced by six regional
offices, a central office and a distribution centre.
www.buildit.co.za
DIY Depot
Number of stores
130
Area of expertise
Building and hardware supplier
Contact details
Head office: 011-791-3087
Mark Reeves: 082-778-6064
Alan Reeves: 082-778-6062
Website
www.diydepot.co.za
DIY Depot is a business totally focused on broadening its already
extensive product range of building materials, hardware and paint
products into new and existing retail outlets creating opportunity for
growth in these outlets in a structured and well formulated manner. The
owners attribute the success of the group to looking after the needs of
every one of DIY Depot’s customers: “Our customers are like family,
and we make sure that we get them the products they want at the best
prices.”
Essential Hardware Group
Number of stores
191
Area of expertise
DIY, building and industrial
Regional manager
Mpumalanga & Swazi – Arrie Muller; Limpopo; Polokwane; PTA
& Botswana – Ferdi Botha; KZN – Graham Bush; Eastern Cape
– Grant Love; Namibia – Jaco Zondagh (Business Consultant);
Gauteng (North & East Rand) – Mark Pharenqua; Gauteng (South &
West Rand) – Nico J. van Rensburg (Business Consultant); Western
& Northern Cape – Peter Lucas; Free State & Lesotho – Pierre Nel;
Gauteng (South & West Rand) & Namibia – Stephan Malan
Website
www.essentialgroup.co.za
The Essential Hardware Group was incorporated to assist independent hardware
stores in playing an active part in their own survival strategy.?Its voluntary trading
organisation allows store owners to retain independence and identity, whilst benefitting
from group buying power, marketing and advertising exposure, access to ‘Essential’
branded product and value added services.
Contact
details
Mpumalanga & Swazi – Arrie Muller – 082 408 7652
([email protected]); Limpopo, Polokwane, PTA
& Botswana – Ferdi Botha – 082 903 6112 (ferdibotha@
iafrica.com); KZN – Graham Bush 082 944 8843 (graham@
essentialgroup.co.za); Eastern Cape – Grant Love – 079
503 6083 ([email protected]); Namibia – Jaco
Zondagh (Business Consultant) – 0026 481 628 8704 (jaco@
essentialgroup.co.za); Gauteng (North & East Rand) – Mark
Pharenqua – 083 277 7748 ([email protected]);
Gauteng (South & West Rand) – Nico J. van Rensburg
(Business Consultant) 074 417 6177 (nico@essentialgroup.
co.za); Western & Northern Cape – Peter Lucas – 083 775
3558 ([email protected]); Free State & Lesotho
– Pierre Nel – 082 773 2772 ([email protected]);
Gauteng (South & West Rand) & Namibia – Stephan Malan
– 082 944 8841 ([email protected])
Kings Paint and NJR Steel
Number of stores
22
Area of expertise
Steel and Paint
Managing director
Gary Hinde
Contact details
Head office: 011-444-5298/9
Lorraine or Gary
Website
www.njrsteel.co.za
www.kingspaint.co.za
The 22 retail outlets are located in North West Province, Limpopo,
Mpumalanga, KwaZulu-Natal and